PWR Reading Series 2013

April 10, 1 pm, Humanities 2001 (Poetry Center)

Derek Owens

St. John's University

Derek Owens is the author of Memory's Wake, Resisting Writings (andthe Boundaries of Composition), and Composition and Sustainability:Teaching for a Threatened Generation. His lyric essays, poetry, andfiction have appeared in Ecopoetics, Seneca Review, and Southampton Review.

February 27, 1 pm, Humanities 2001 (Poetry Center)

Fiction Writer Nathan Oates

Seton Hall University

Nathan Oates’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Witness, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Fugue, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere. His stories have been anthologized twice in Best American Mystery Stories (2008, 2012), as well as in the 70th Anniversary Issue of and The Antioch Reviewand Forty Stories (Harper Perennial).